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UPDATE: Netball Scotland Digital Awards

21st June 2019

Following the recent announcement of NSAWARDS19 earlier this month, we received some concerns about the final public voting procedure and its effect on the final result. We have since made some changes to the final vote, in the hopes that the result will be balanced across all categories – public voting will now account for 30% of the final outcome, whilst 70% will be decided by the Netball Scotland Selection Panel who will review the nomination information anonymously.

• The voting panel will independently decide the finalists, pick their winner and rank the runners up. (70% weight)
• The public will be presented with the finalists via social media and asked to vote for their favourites. The finalist with the most votes decided by the public will be the winner and runners up ranked thereafter. (30% weight)
• From there the public and panel votes will be added together and divided by 100 (70% + 30% = 100%) to give us our final ranked positions.

How the Maths works

Points

Say we have 4 finalists – Each ranking will be assigned points, 1^st place being the highest will receive 4 points 4^th place being the lowest will receive 1 point.

Panel Vote

Club 1 has been voted through the panel vote as the winner so will accrue 4 points. And since the panel vote accounts for 70% of the overall vote we multiply 4 points by 70 to accrue 280 points from the panel vote.

Public Vote

However, in the public vote Club 1 was ranked in 3^rd place so will accrue 2 points. And since the public vote accounts for 30% of the overall vote we multiply 2 points by 30 to accrue 60 points from the public vote.

Final Points

Now for the final points we add the panel points and public vote points together (280 + 60 = 340) and divide the total by 100 (70% + 30% = 100%). Meaning Club 1 gets 3.4 points in total from both votes (340 divided by 100 = 3.4).

Final Ranking

This calculation is performed for each ranking and the final points are ranked highest (1^st place) to lowest (4^th place).

We hope this change to voting will make the final result fairer and more balanced. This example has shown that the public vote can have an impact on the Panel vote, but not to the degree that any has an unfair advantage over the other.

There’s still time to get your nominations in click here to nominate the coach, umpire, volunteers, clubs and schools that shape your netball experience! If you need anymore information on the award categories click here.

And remember, send TWO images of your nominee to membership@netballscotland.com after you have submitted your nomination. GO ON, GET VOTING!